BOSWORTH MP David Tredinnick has paid back more than £750 of taxpayers money he spent on astrology software.

And he claims he was targeted by other politicians who were simply trying to score cheap political points.

The MP for Bosworth struck a deal with the parliamentary standards commissioner to pay back the £755 which he claimed for a computer programme that states it can help users to predict their health via the stars.

And Mr Tredinnick told the Hinckley Times that despite believing his claim was completely above board, it was better to clear the air and repay the money.

He said: “The money was claimed and cleared before it was done and it was to do with how the planets work with Indian medicine. I think we all accept that the sun affects all our lives and the moon with the tides for example.

“The complaint was made by a British National Party candidate and it was just one complaint from the population of the whole country. I made the point to the standards officer that this was something I have been looking into for a long time and he agreed. But I though nevertheless it was hard to prove it was wholly for that and I decided to pay it back.

“It is a tiny amount compared to some others who have paid back and I think this is a party political complaint and is all about political scoring.”

When the MP’s expenses were revealed last year he was criticised for claiming £500 a month on mobile phone bills as well as the computer software, and then it was later revealed that a woman who ran a course on “intimate relationships” that Mr Tredinnick attended and later tried to claim on his expenses, later became a Conservative member of Gloucestershire County Council.